Word: originated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declaring that the Christian faith is "dependent upon the outcome of this conflict." Few theologians of any denomination hold such a belief. They say that Christianity can lose a war, can even go underground for centuries (as it did in the catacombs), but that, because of its divine origin, Christianity's fate is never wholly dependent on such worldly things...
...doctors tackled the social and biological causes of cancer as zealously as its mysterious microscopic origin, they could reduce the U.S. total of 155,000 deaths a year from cancer...
...walked into, in four they knew no English, in three they under stood it but answered me in German. In only one, a bookshop on Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse, they answered in glutinous English. Of English books it had almost none. Most of its stock was German of pre-war origin. It had picture postcards of Swakop mund and Windhoek, and of Hamburg and Heidelberg...
...picking the place, Navy bigwigs showed the sea-wisdom of an old salt, the esthetic sense of a crackajack travel agent. Of glacial origin, Lake Pend d'Oreille is a favorite summer resort for the Northwest, is one of the largest U.S. fresh-water lakes (35 miles long, six to 15 miles wide). At either end, broad grass-lush prairies melt into smooth bathing beaches; on the east, steep cliffs stand sheer from the water, mount on up into the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains. The lake is fish-chocked: trout, land-locked salmon, whitefish. In summer, scores of pleasure boats...
...reading room was quiet except for the labored scratching of pens. Vag looked around and yawned. He surveyed the room, which, in contrast with the blue sky and sunlight outside, looked gloomier than ever. Across the table someone was busily taking notes on a big, red book called "The Origin and Evolution of Life." He wondered whether the student would know anything more about Life after reading the book than before. "Probably not," Vag reflected, sadly. He yawned again and looked outside. "Wonder what the Red Sox are doing," he thought, gazing dully at his book...